Unless there is within us that which is above us, we shall soon yield to that which is about us.

The first duty of every soul is to find not its freedom but its Master.

May my heart be kind, my mind fierce, and my spirit brave.

Curiosity may have killed the cat, but it was the sausage-maker who disposed of the body.

Some investments do have higher expected returns than others. Which ones? Well, by and large they're the ones that will do the worst in bad times.

It may be an old cliche, but I think true love will last; it has no end. But finding the right person is a very difficult thing.

The stubbornness of a weak man should never be underestimated. The weak tend to be very stubborn when they've decided on something.

We shall come one day to a heaven where we shall gratefully know that God's great refusals were sometimes the true answers to our truest prayer.

I'm not even really a joke-teller. I can do ad-lib and banter, but I don't do jokes.

If within us we find nothing over us we succumb to what is around us.

When a performer doesn't get nervous, that is when you have to give up.

Be loving to find the love.

In failure, you begin to lose friends. In success, you lose most of them.

Judge tenderly, if you must. There is usually a side you have not heard, a story you know nothing about, and a battle waged that you are not having to fight.

Toaster: A gift that every member of the family appreciates. Automatically burns toast.

Can we learn to become more learning-oriented individually and collectively, rather than 'I know' oriented?

The threat to change Senate rules is a raw abuse of power and will destroy the very checks and balances our founding fathers put in place to prevent absolute power by any one branch of government.

But, if recent history has taught us anything, it’s that self-regulation doesn’t work in finance, and that worries about reputation are a weak deterrent to corporate malfeasance.

Human cloning is coming.

I love what I do professionally, I'm really blessed. But my priority is my husband and my children.

I think love keeps on changing every day. It’s not black and white and it’s definitely more than 50 shades of grey.